ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 626, 17 April 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

Twelve tons of circulars were recently sent through the, U’ost tHlico, at a coat for j postage of 915/., in ,an unsuccessful attempt to float a limited liability company. The consumption of tobacco in England is rapidly on the inprease. In 1873 the value imported, exclusive of cigars, amounted to 2,(ii3,5471., against 1,552,9141. in the previous twelve months, v' Nineteen duels were fought in Fiance during last year. t)f th»se two ended fatally. Twelve were fought with the sword, and the others with the pistol. Paris possesses twenty-three fashion: journals and seven religious’newspapers. Seven theatres were burnt down during; . 1873—at’ Odessa,Reichenhall, Malta, Boston, Baltimore, New York, and the Paris Opera. A new argument *for oyster eaters has been advanced by the London Medical Record. It appears from recent experij ments that raw oysters contain pepsine enough to digest themselves. No wonder oysters agree with most dyspeptics. . A London Sunday is usually quoted by i Parisians as the acme of dnlness and | t-nniii: ■ ’I hey do not, however, always find : their own capital perfect in this respect to j indue by the following letter left by M. : A ictor Bourrednn explanatory of his reason for ending his life by a pan of lighted charcoal “ I hill mvse'f because I cannot stand Sunday.-' Kindly let my family know r ofjthis.—Y, Buerredon.” A new Atlantic Telegraph Cable is to be commenced during the ! present year on the principles established by the experiments of Air Higbtnn, ’the eminent electrician. The cost of construction and maintenance of the new 7 cable will be so diminished that messages will be despatcb(ri‘bp.tween England and America.for one shilling. A man was recently punished for ill-using a cat, another man was brought tw for illtreating a rat, but the charge w.as dismissed because the rat is'no I; in legal phraseology a “ domestic” animal. The T>ev. D. M'Owen, Rector of Mark's Tev. has made himself notorious bv prosecuting a. poor old man of sixty, who had revved him for five years, as .sexton, clerk, and gardener, for stealing three pieces of wood, vahm one nanny, the remnants of some material with which he had been making a drain. The gentlemen of the EolChester, Bench were so terribly afraid that the criminal would elope if sot at large, that tlmy would take no less than j 20/., bail, refusing the kind offer of the prisoner’s counsel to be bound surety fo" him to the extent of 10/. The case was beard on the Saturday following. AVe wonder fsays Ihe Oravdiicl whether the reetor attended Divine Service next day, and if so,- whether his conscience, if ho has 0"e, did net smiti him when ho came to a certain clan'e in the prayer which Our Lord taught His disciples. Professor Anderson, the “ Wizard of the North,” has died at Darlington, at the age of sixty. Dining his professional career ho had been three times round the world. Manchester, alarmed at the high price of coals, has opened an exhibition of appliances for the diminution of waste iu the consumption of full. Captain Mann sell has been tried for the assault on IDs Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The Frenchman aecnsrfd of forging the trade mark of Messrs Moot and Cbandon has been committed for trial. There was a “scene” in the Central Criminal Court the other day when sentence of ten years penal servitude was passed upon a burglar convicted for the third time. He declared that he would rather be sen tinned; to death, and became so violent that it took several policemen to remove him to the colls. The following amusing breach of promise case was hoard recently. The defendant, a tailor, age 1 fifty, was introduced to the plaintiff, a dressmaker, some fifteen years younger than himself, by a mutual friend, and lost no time in putting the momentous question. After a courtship of three months the banns were published, but a neighbor, taking offence at not receiving an invitation to the wedding breakfast, made certain communications to the expectant bridegroom which caused him to tell his fnnm that “ he had no fancy for gin hinisoff, and had no respect for any one who had.” and to push her out of the house. The disappointed and insulted lady got 150/. damages.